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William Sellar

British association football player (1866-1914)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 26, 2026
Entity authorityQ16058873 ↗
Source-derived summary

William Sellar (21 September 1866 – 10 June 1914) was a Scottish footballer, who played for Queen's Park, Battlefield, Rangers and Scotland.

See also

List of Scotland national football team captains

References

Sources

Smith, Paul (2013). Scotland Who's Who. Pitch Publishing. ISBN 9781909178847.

Editorial summary

“William Sellar” enters the record as british association football player (1866-1914). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what William, Sellar and British can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1866, 1914, 2013—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1866-09-21. Its strongest next move is a source search built around William, Sellar and British.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“William Sellar” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, William, Sellar and British provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 26, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q16058873. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1866, 1914 and 2013.

Critical limits

Later biographies can compress uncertainty and repeat inherited reputations, so apparently settled claims may still require comparison. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

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  • Establishing names and roles
  • Building a first chronology
  • Locating cited institutions
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  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

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This entry incorporates text from “William Sellar” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.